Healthy Woman event is Tuesday

Gluten-free. You’ve heard about the diet plans — the necessity for some. But what does it mean? Is it another passing fad?

Moberly Regional Medical Center’s Healthy Woman group will be holding a free program for women on just that topic Tuesday (Sept. 17), at The Lodge in Rothwell Park, starting at 5:30 p.m.

MRMC Gastroenterologist Ameena Anees, MD, will be presenting the program, entitled “Gluten-free: It’s not just a fad.”

Says the release from MRMC in regards to the event: “It seems like everywhere you look right now, there's a gluten-free option. Just another food fad? Not hardly. Dr. Anees is going to give us the skinny on Celiac Disease and how to treat it.”

MRMC Dietician Paulina McCoy is scheduled to give the group dietary suggestions for gluten-free eating in general, and for those with Celiac Disease.

Also of note, Lisa Johnson, with the Moberly Public School District, will give an update on the Buddy Pack Program, which supplements food for children in grades K-8, using a backpack full of kid-friendly food that they can take home with them on the weekends.

Moberly’s program “currently feeds 300 every week” the release notes. Healthy Women members are asked to “bring kid-friendly, individually-packaged items on Tuesday to donate to the program.”

RSVPs can be made at 269-3296, or at www.moberlyhospital.com/healthywoman.